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Antwon – “Helicopter”

West Coast rapper Antwon drops a video for one of the better tracks from his Fantasy Beds mixtape, which came out last year. He dropped another one recently, too.

The video ain’t much but clips of Antwon chillin’ with friends against some Steve McQueen car chase scenes, but the stellar beat and ‘Twon’s beefy voice on this track are more than deserving of some visuals to help raise its visibility. Enjoy!

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Everything Everything – “Cough Cough”

Everything Everything absolutely oozes personality on this track way back from August 2012.

This is a song worth going back to, it begins with a very unique vocal build up that develops into some truly great harmonies. Not only are the harmonies great, but the lead vocalist it perfectly eccentric and delivers an astonishing vocal performance. You can clearly see in the video that this Manchester band has put a lot of heart in their music, the video shows them beating on giant tribal drums while stock political footage intersects. There are also great transitions from black and white to color matching up with the music. Of course in a video the passion can be faked, but not in the music and it definitely has it from the vocals down to the frantic synthesizers.

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The Needle Drop: 01-08-12

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Kiran Leonard – “Dear Lincoln”

A music video from multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Kiran Leonard. The tune comes from the newly remixed and mastered version of his Bowler Hat Soup album. Give a full listen to the album here.

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My Bloody Valentine- Loveless

CLASSICS WEEK: My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless. Even 20 years after its initial release, this album still thrives as one of the strangest auditory experiences in rock and pop. Kevin Shields and company truly came together with a sonically surreal album here that still has modern experimentalists intrigued.

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King Crimson- In the Court of the Crimson King

CLASSICS WEEK: Decades after its release, In the Court of the Crimson King still stands tall as one of the greatest and most relevant progressive rock albums ever.

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Madvillainy- Madvillain

CLASSICS WEEK: With eccentric rhymes and colorful beats, Madvillain’s Madvillainy is easily one of my favorite hip hop albums ever. A modern classic.

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EPIC YUNOREVIEW OF SADNESS!

This is the longest YUNOREVIEW I’ve ever done. Not sure I’ll ever wanna do something like this again, ha! Well, anyway, if a particular artist who released an album, EP, or mixtape earlier this year somehow did not make this list, then you might as well give up hope. I can’t review everything–even if the new Taylor Swift album ain’t bad. I’ll leave it to you to form your own opinions on any releases I have missed.

Speaking of opinions, I wouldn’t take mine in this video all that seriously. I’m pretty indifferent toward most of the albums on this list. Some are very good, and I regret missing them, but others just needed to be avoided to maintain a “normal” mental state. However, I’m not implying that music reviewing is driving me to the brink! I assure you I had very little sanity to begin with.

Thank you for watching! I love you! I wish you the best. I hope your holidays are great, too. Here are the artists that get mentioned in this video:

Royal Headache
Nathan Fake
Riff Raff
Spector
Two Door Cinema Club
DMX
Bob Mould
Nile
Ash Borer
Yeasayer
Meek Mill
Machine Gun Kelly
Lightning Bolt
Periphery
Birds In Row
XV
Patti Smith
The Walkmen
Cat Power
Menomena
Kreayshawn
Big Sean
Evitan
Thee Oh Sees
Kishi Bashi
Ulver
The Chariot
Ufomammut
Blut Aus Nord
Katatonia
Ben Folds Five
Breakbot
The Fresh & Onlys
The Music Tapes
Teengirl Fantasy
Isahn
John Cale
Meridian Brothers
Neneh Cherry & The Thing
Ceremony
Freddie Gibbs
Traxman
Anaal Nathrakh
Dysrhythmia
Behold The Arctopus
Roc Marciano
Minus The Bear
Two Fingers
Circa Survive
Father John Misty
Slightly Stoopid
Mono
Brother Ali
A Place To Bury Strangers
The Babies
Coheed and Cambria
The Killers
Vinnie Paz
Amenra
Ty Segall
Trash Talk
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Bob Dylan
Gary Clark Jr.
WHY?
The Souljazz Orchestra
Flume
The UV Race
Larry Lovestein & The Velvet Revival
The Darkness
Diamond Rings
Susanne Sundfor
Sean Price
Barker & Baumecker
Flatbush Zombies
Guided By Voices
The Man With The Iron Fists OST
Soundgarden
Propagandhi
Carter Tutti Void
Raime
Shackleton

I actually meant to get Bigg Jus and Giles Corey on this list as well. Such is life!

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Lianna La Havas- Is Your Love Big Enough?

On her full-length debut, UK singer-songwriter Lianne La Havas shows off a great voice, a 6th sense for melody, and a lot of promise.

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Burial- Truant / Rough Sleeper

On this new pair of tracks, dubstep innovator Burial uses gaps and silence to progress his ever-growing interest in longer song lengths and ambient atmospheres.

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